9:47 pm in Business & Politics, delaware, electricity, fuel efficiency, usa by TreeHugger
Solid oxide fuel cells adjacent to Wal-mart parking lot. Image credit:
Bloom Energy
Natural gas-reforming solid oxide fuel cells will soon be assembled in a former Chrysler plant, located in Newark DE. The 100-kilowatt individual fuel cell units by
Bloom Energy will likely be combined to provide combined heat and electricity for Wal-mart, Coca-Cola, and FedEx facilities (as pictured). Power doesn't get any more American than that and you can't beat the...
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6:00 am in air travel, alternative fuel, aviation, Cars & Transportation, fuel efficiency, Travel & Nature by TreeHugger
Photo: tedeytan via Flikr
Not much has changed since Mat reported on Greenopia's Greenest Airlines ranking last year.
Virgin America still leads the pack followed by Continental and Alaska Airlines.
I love a third-party verified list, but with
green airline itself nudging to the top of the most oxymoronic phrase list I decided to take a look at how Greenopia actually measures the
viriditās of our domestic airlines.
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7:08 pm in Cars & Transportation, fuel efficiency, transportation by TreeHugger
Created By WellHome Energy Audits and Insulation
Take a looksy at this cute little chart, if only to see how little progress there's been in fuel efficiency over the last 100 years. As you can see, we figured out how to produce cars that get 40 or so mpg some 60 years ago. And only in the last few years have we really started improving on
that....
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Photo: ceiling under a Creative Commons license.
In the last few years, Europe as a whole has made a variety of efforts to reduce carbon emissions, by encouraging use electric and hybrid vehicles as well as of alternative modes of transportation. But despite the group effort, some countries are far ahead of others. Presented last month and reported by Le Figaro, the results of a study looking at car...Read the full story on TreeHugger
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